Summary and Setup

This lesson is designed to teach you how to explore available CMS datasets on the CERN Open Data portal. You will find the primary datasets in which collision data were directed when the data were taken, and simulated Monte Carlo samples that are available for the run period you are interested in.

You’ll also be shown how to do a first-order inspection of some of these datafiles, just to see what is stored in them.

First episodes of this lesson can be worked through in a web browser. Episodes 4 and 5 use Docker containers to inspect and download open data files and their metadata, and it will require using a Unix terminal (Linux, MacOS terminal, or Windows WSL2 Ubuntu terminal) with Docker installed.